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  1. FEMIS - Les 208 Films qu'il faut avoir vu's icon

    FEMIS - Les 208 Films qu'il faut avoir vu

    Favs/dislikes: 13:0. Cette liste n’est pas un palmarès, ni en aucun cas la liste des 208 meilleurs films de l’histoire du cinéma. Sa visée est tout autre. 208 films, c’est 1 film par semaine pendant 4 ans, c’est-à-dire un rythme de croisière tout à fait raisonnable pour un élève de la Femis, qui a choisi de faire du cinéma son métier. Nul ne saurait évidemment s’en contenter. Quel est le sens d’une telle liste ? Un jeune homme ou une jeune femme qui aurait vu (vraiment vu, c’est-à-dire médité, discuté, car voir sans laisser résonner ce que l’on a vu n’est pas voir) ces 208 films aurait une solide idée de ce qui l’a précédé dans le cinéma depuis que celui-ci existe. Cette liste nous semble dessiner une carte des œuvres et des cinéastes indispensables à qui veut se repérer dans un univers où il se prépare à entrer. La visée de cette liste est moins d’histoire (au sens propre du terme) que de culture cinématographique. Aucun peintre ne peut faire l’économie des grandes œuvres qui l’ont précédé. Il en va de même au cinéma : il importe au plus haut point de connaître ce dont le cinéma a été capable avant son propre engagement, de quelque ordre qu’il soit, dans cet art. La cinéphilie a toujours eu partie liée avec un goût pour la liste en tant qu’elle est provisoirement close et exclusive, donc objet possible de discussions passionnées. Toute liste est par définition contestable. Celle-ci a été élaborée en concertation avec les directeurs de département de l’école, la directrice des études, son directeur et son président. Chacun pourra néanmoins s’étonner ou s’indigner de tel ou tel manque, de tel ou tel choix. C’est aussi l’intérêt d’une telle liste de pousser chacun à comparer avec SA liste idéale, à chercher les absences à ses yeux scandaleuses. Cela permet de faire le point sur sa propre planète de cinéma imaginaire, de mieux cerner la cartographie de son goût propre. Cette liste assume sereinement les distorsions perspectives issues du fait qu’elle est établie à un moment donné (2008), en un point donné (La France), pour des destinataires précis (les élèves de la FEMIS), avec une part normale de subjectivité. Personne ne vient du ciel d’une Histoire du cinéma aux valeurs immanentes. Elle a été établie avec beaucoup de scrupules, doutes, repentirs, à partir de celles que nous ont été communiquées au moment de son élaboration, mais toujours en gardant en tête son objectif d’auto-culture pour des jeunes gens qui se destinent à la création cinématographique, à quelque poste que ce soit. Il ne s’agit en aucun cas des films les plus aboutis de chaque cinéaste. Le choix s’est plutôt porté sur les films où le cinéaste affichait sa plus grande singularité, où était le plus sensible sa musique personnelle, ou encore le film où il venait de découvrir sa place dans le cinéma et son possible apport personnel. Il est toujours plus intéressant pour un apprenti d’observer le moment où un cinéaste s’est trouvé plutôt que celui où il a commencé à maîtriser calmement ce qu’il avait trouvé. Le choix s’est toujours porté sur ce qui nous a semblé être les films les plus profitables à un apprenti en cinéma d’aujourd’hui. Choisir un film de Jean Renoir, de Fritz Lang, d’Orson Welles ou de Godard est aussi absurde que choisir un tableau de Picasso dans un siècle de peinture, surtout pour les cinéastes qui ont traversé des périodes radicalement différentes du cinéma, par exemple du muet au parlant pour Buñuel ou du cinéma européen au cinéma américain pour Lang. Il va de soi que le film choisi vaut comme simple indication emblématique, et que l’on ne saurait se contenter, pour les grands cinéastes, de voir un seul de leurs films. Le cinéma français a la part belle dans cette liste puisqu’après tout c’est dans cette généalogie que la plupart des élèves de la FEMIS, quel que soit leur département, vont avoir à trouver leur place et inscrire leur travail. Le cinéma des trente dernières années y occupe une place de choix dans la mesure où il est le plus prégnant dans la constitution d’une pensée actuelle du cinéma. Il y a des films qui aident à vivre (ceux-là, rares, on les trouve tout seul) et les films qui aident à créer (ceux-là répondent à d’autres critères, et on ne les croise par toujours au bon moment, quand on en aurait besoin). Les avoir repérés avant peut être d’un grand recours. Voir de tels films, quand on s’apprête à travailler dans le cinéma, déclenche des idées, des réflexions, des comparaisons, des envies, des pulsions et répulsions de cinéma. Rien n’est plus volatile que ces idées de traverse. C’est aussi une fonction de cette liste : susciter l’envie de noter à chaud et pour soi, sur chaque film vu, ces idées de traverse. Nul doute que ces notes d’apprenti sur les œuvres du passé ne deviennent à la longue un outil précieux de repérage de soi, de ses goûts et dégoûts, des grandes lignes de force de son idée de cinéma. Et il n’y a pas de bon cinéma, pour quiconque y travaille, sans une idée forte du cinéma. Alain Bergala (2008)
  2. International Federation of Film Archives's Centenary List's icon

    International Federation of Film Archives's Centenary List

    Favs/dislikes: 13:0. "FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives, brings together the world's leading institutions in the field of moving picture heritage. Its affiliates are the defenders of the Twentieth Century's own art form. They are dedicated to the rescue, collection, preservation and screening of moving images, which are valued both as works of art and culture and as historical documents."
  3. The Ray Memorial 100 List of Top Foreign Films's icon

    The Ray Memorial 100 List of Top Foreign Films

    Favs/dislikes: 13:0. As compiled by a ballot by Edward Copeland and 173 other film experts
  4. 100 Years of Japanese Cinema's icon

    100 Years of Japanese Cinema

    Favs/dislikes: 14:0. List of movies that was mentioned in BFI documentary project
  5. iCM Forum's Favourite Movies 1002-2000's icon

    iCM Forum's Favourite Movies 1002-2000

    Favs/dislikes: 14:0. Compiled using lists submitted by members of the [url=https://forum.icmforum.com/]unofficial iCheckMovies forum[/url]. Updated for 2023. Huge thanks to Tim2460 for organising it all and calculating all the results, to [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/peacefulanarchy/]PeacefulAnarchy[/url] and [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/allisoncm/]Allisoncm[/url] for doing the previous lists, and to [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/mightysparks/]mightysparks[/url] for hosting the main list, which you can find [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+1001+favourite+movies/mightysparks/]here[/url]. This list can also be found on [url=https://www.imdb.com/list/ls088455812/]IMDB[/url]. And thanks to everyone who submitted lists!
  6. Writters Guild of America's 101 Best-Written Shows's icon

    Writters Guild of America's 101 Best-Written Shows

    Favs/dislikes: 14:0. In june 2013, the Writters Guild of America chose the 101 best-written TV shows of all-time. Here they are, ranked.
  7. Arrow Video USA Releases's icon

    Arrow Video USA Releases

    Favs/dislikes: 15:1. In 2015 the UK-based company Arrow Films expanded its "Arrow Video" cult movie label into the US market with the following releases. In 2017 Arrow expanded its [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/arrow+academy+usa+releases/knaldskalle/]"Arrow Academy" art house movie label[/url] into the US as well. For a list of their UK releases, please see [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/arrow+video+releases+uk/brokenface/]Arrow Video Releases (UK)[/url] and [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/arrow+academy+releases+uk/brokenface/]Arrow Academy Releases (UK)[/url]. Note: "Stormy Monday" was originally slated to be released in June of 217, but was pulled due to "sudden rights complications."
  8. 100 Bollywood Films (BFI Screen Guide)'s icon

    100 Bollywood Films (BFI Screen Guide)

    Favs/dislikes: 16:0. Bollywood film is the national cinema of India, describing movies made in Mumbai, distributed nationally across India and with their own production, distribution, and exhibition networks worldwide. This informative screen guide reflects the work of key directors, major stars, and important music directors and screenplay writers. Historically important films have been included along with certain cult movies and top box-office successes.
  9. A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears's icon

    A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears

    Favs/dislikes: 16:0. Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema.
  10. BFI TV 100's icon

    BFI TV 100

    Favs/dislikes: 16:0. The BFI TV 100 is a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre ever to have been screened. In Progress
  11. AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Songs: The Nominations's icon

    AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Songs: The Nominations

    Favs/dislikes: 17:0. The American Film Institute’s original 2004 list of the 400 songs nominated for the Greatest Movie Songs featured 349 films total. Films released in 2002 and prior were eligible. Lost films not included on list: Gold Diggers of Broadway Little Johnny Jones
  12. AFI’s 100 Years of Film Scores: The Nominations's icon

    AFI’s 100 Years of Film Scores: The Nominations

    Favs/dislikes: 17:0. The American Film Institute’s original 2005 list of the 250 Film Scores nominated for AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores. Films released in 2002 and prior were eligible.
  13. Condemned by the Legion of Decency's icon

    Condemned by the Legion of Decency

    Favs/dislikes: 17:1. This is a list of films condemned by the Legion of Decency, a United States Catholic organization, and its successor (from 1965), the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures. The condemned (or C) rating was issued from the time of the Legion's formation in 1933 until 1978, when the C rating and the B rating were merged into the new O ("morally offensive") rating. In 1980, the NCOMP film office was shut down, along with the biweekly Review, which had published ratings on 16,251 feature films. The Legion's ratings were applied to movies made in the United States (which were subject to the Production Code until 1967) as well as those imported from other countries. Beginning in 1968, the ratings were applied in addition to any rating assigned by the MPAA film rating system. Legion-organized boycotts made a C rating harmful to a film's distribution and profitability. Accordingly, for the majority of years that the rating was applied, most condemned films were made outside of the United States, where their producers didn't have as much to fear from the condemnation. Of the 53 movies the Legion had placed on its condemned list by 1943, only Howard Hughes' The Outlaw came from a major US studio, and it had not been approved by the Production Code or distributed widely. Despite rumors to the contrary, Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire and Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch did not receive C ratings. Rather, Kazan's film was cut by 4 minutes to avoid condemnation, while Wilder's film had to cut scenes from the original play to be approved by Legion of Decency. [wikipedia]
  14. Flicker Alley DVD Catalog's icon

    Flicker Alley DVD Catalog

    Favs/dislikes: 17:0. Flicker Alley is an American DVD company whose primary focus is on releasing films from the silent era, with an emphasis on works of very early cinema (almost half of these titles are by Georges Melies.) In the words of Flicker Alley itself: "Flicker Alley was born out of a passion for cinematic history and a desire to bring filmmakers and films from out of the past to new audiences and renewed recognition. The company was founded in 2002 by Jeffery Masino who drew on a lifelong enthusiasm and fascination with silent, classic, and independent cinema as well as on many years of experience in film and television production and post-production." Missing from IMDb: Thrills For You (1940) from "3-D Rarities" Bolex Stereo (1952) from "3-D Rarities" M.L. Gunzburg Presents Natural Vision 3-Dimension (1952) from "3-D Rarities" Rocky Marciano vs. Jersey Joe Walcott (1953) from "3-D Rarities" Doom Town (1953) from "3-D Rarities" I'll Sell My Shirt (1953) from "3-D Rarities" Our Southern Mountaineers (1918) from "We're in the Movies" Mountain Life (????) from "We're in the Movies"
  15. B+ and Up's icon

    B+ and Up

    Favs/dislikes: 19:0. The A.V. Club reviews most of the cinematic landscape on a scale from A to F. All movies with a rating of B+ or higher are listed here. (Starting from January 1st 2006)
  16. AFI America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres's icon

    AFI America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres

    Favs/dislikes: 20:0. in the following order: 1-10 Animation 11-20 Romantic Comedy 21-30 Westerns 31-40 Sports 41-50 Mystery 51-60 Fantasy 61-70 Science Fiction 71-80 Gangster 81-90 Courtroom dramas 91-100 Epics
  17. AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Movie Quotes: The Nominations's icon

    AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Movie Quotes: The Nominations

    Favs/dislikes: 20:0. The American Film Institute’s original 2005 list of the 400 quotes nominated for the Greatest Movie Quotes featured 344 films total. Films released in 2003 and prior were eligible.
  18. AFI’s Top 10 Sports: The Nominations's icon

    AFI’s Top 10 Sports: The Nominations

    Favs/dislikes: 20:0. The 50 Sports movies nominated for the American Film Institute’s 10 Top 10. Films released in 2006 and prior were eligible.
  19. Cinematheque Ontario's Best Films of the 90s's icon

    Cinematheque Ontario's Best Films of the 90s

    Favs/dislikes: 20:0. At the end of the 1990s, Cinematheque Ontario (the former name of TIFF) asked 59 film curators, archivists, and programmers from around the world to vote for the best films of the 1990s. TIFF also made a list of the [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/tiffs+best+of+the+decade+an+alternative+view+2000s/mjf314/]best films of the 2000s[/url].
  20. TIFF's The Essential 100: Expert Panel's icon

    TIFF's The Essential 100: Expert Panel

    Favs/dislikes: 20:0. TIFF's [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/toronto+international+film+festival+-+the+essential+100/rtrench/]Essential 100[/url] "represents the merging of one 100 film list as determined by an expert panel of TIFF curators with one 100 film list as determined by TIFF stakeholders." This is the expert panel's list, compiled by five TIFF curators in 2009. Their goal was to create a list of "essential cinema" that balanced "best" and "most influential," with a limit of one film per director.
  21. AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Heroes & Villains: The Nominations's icon

    AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Heroes & Villains: The Nominations

    Favs/dislikes: 21:0. The American Film Institute’s original 2003 list of the 400 characters nominated for the Greatest Heroes and Villains featured 368 films total. Films released in 2001 and prior were eligible.
  22. AFI’s Top 10 Epic: The Nominations's icon

    AFI’s Top 10 Epic: The Nominations

    Favs/dislikes: 21:0. The 50 Epic movies nominated for the American Film Institute’s 10 Top 10. Films released in 2006 and prior were eligible.
  23. Harvard University's Suggested Film Viewing List: Single-channel Video (2012)'s icon

    Harvard University's Suggested Film Viewing List: Single-channel Video (2012)

    Favs/dislikes: 21:0. This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria. The list is divided into 5 sections: I. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+narrative+films+2012/]Narrative Films[/url] [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+hollywood+genres+2012/mjf314/]Hollywood Genres (with an emphasis on the classical studio era)[/url] II. [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+non-fiction+films+2012/]Non-Fiction Films[/url] III. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+animated+films+2012/mjf314/]Animated Films[/url] IV. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+experimentalslashavant-gardeslashunderground+films+2012/mjf314/]Experimental/Avant-garde/Underground Films[/url] V. [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+single-channel+video+2012/mjf314/]Single-channel Video[/url] Many of the videos are missing from IMDb. However, most of them are available on DVD or online. Missing from IMDb: The Best of Ernie Kovacs (Ernie Kovacs, 1957ff., US) Stamping in My Studio (Bruce Nauman, 1968, US) Self Burial (Keith Arnatt, 1969, FRG) Hello (Allan Kaprow, 1969, US) TV Interruptions (David Hall, 1971, US) I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (John Baldessari, 1971, US) Centers (Vito Acconti, 1971, US) Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas, 1972, US) Past Future/Split Attention (Dan Graham, 1972, US) Theme Song (Vito Acconci, 1973, US) TV Delivers People (Richard Serra/Nancy Holt, 1973, US) TV Ad (Chris Burden, 1973, US) The Meaning of Various News Photos (John Baldessari, 1973, US) Children’s Tapes (Terry Fox, 1974, US) Ball (William Wegman, 1974, US) Body Music (Charlemagne Palestine, 1974, US) The Eternal Frame (T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm, 1975, US) My Father (Shigeko Kubota, 1975, Japan) Probably the World’s Smallest TV Station (Media Bus, 1975, US) Upset Stomach—Fast (Paulo Herkenhoff, 1975, Brazil) Revolve (Nancy Holt, 1977, US) The Red Tapes (Vito Acconci, 1977, US) Cage, Wire (Sonia Andrade, 1977, US) Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry (Dara Birnbaum, 1979, US) Hearts (Barbara Buckner, 1979, US) Beneath the Skin (Cecelia Condit, 1981, US) The Looking Glass (Juan Downey, 1981, US) Meta Mayan (Edin Vélez, 1981, US) Smothering Dreams (Daniel Reeves, 1981, US) Casual Shopper (Judith Barry, 1981, US) Rock My Religion (Dan Graham, 1982-84, US) Ohio to Giverny: Memory of Light (Mary Lucier, 1983, US) Subatomic Babies (Shalom Gorewitz, 1983, US) Sabda (Daniel Reeves, 1984, US) Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come on Petunia) (Gary Hill, 1984, US) Incidence of Catastrophe (Gary Hill, 1987-8, US) Not a Jealous Bone (Cecelia Condit, 1987, US) Berlin: Tourist Journal (Ken Kobland, 1988, US) Some Aspect of a Shared Lifestyle (Gregg Bordowitz, 1986, US) Mike (Michael Smith, 1987, US) Political Advertisements II: 1956-1988 (Muntadas, 1988, US) Volcano Saga (Joan Jonas, 1989, US) Site Recite (A Prologue) (Gary Hill, 1989, US) Like a Prayer (DIVA TV, 1989, US) Desire Incorporated (Lynn Herschman, 1990, US) Corps étranger (Mona Hatoum, 1994, UK) Oh, Rapunzel (Cecelia Condit, 1996, US) The B.C. Corporate Story (Bernadette Corporation, 1996, US) Presenta (Yoshua Okón, 1998, Mexico) Involuntary Reception (Kristin Lucas, 2000, US) Trembling Time (Yael Bartana, 2001, Israel) La Tombola (Ximena Cuevas, 2001, Mexico) Still Life (Sam Taylor-Wood, 2001, UK) My Sneakers (Michael Blum, 2001, Israel) Mom and Me Watching Zoolander (Anne Walsh, 2002, US) 10 Minutes of Collective Activity (Sharon Hayes, 2003, US) Baghdad in No Particular Order (Paul Chan, 2003, US) Stoned & Dethroned (Slater Bradley, 2004, US) 30 Seconds Hate (Bryan Boyce, 2004, US) Returning a Sound (Jennifer Allora/Guillermo Calzadilla, 2004, US) Miranda July Videoworks: Volume 1 (Miranda July, 2005, US)
  24. AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Cheers: The Nominations's icon

    AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Cheers: The Nominations

    Favs/dislikes: 22:0. The American Film Institute’s original 2006 list of the 300 movies nominated for the 100 Most Inspiring American Movies of All Time. Films released in 2004 and prior were eligible.
  25. Harvard University's Suggested Film Viewing List: All Sections (2011)'s icon

    Harvard University's Suggested Film Viewing List: All Sections (2011)

    Favs/dislikes: 22:0. This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria. The list is divided into 6 sections: I. Narrative Films Hollywood Genres (with an emphasis on the classical studio era) II. Non-Fiction Films III. Animated Films IV. Experimental/Avant-garde/Underground Films V. Videos VI. Video Installations (this section can't be added to iCM because IMDb doesn't list video installations) This list combines the first 5 sections into a single list. 5 of the films are included in 2 sections, but they are listed only once on this iCM list.
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